An employee’s baby was diagnosed with a serious life threatening illness and the small town’s medical authorities could not deal with it and were slow in pursuing alternatives. Her employer within hours arranged medical treatment in a major city, flights, and hotel. The employer covered these and all other expenses, including living expenses and a paid month off and offered to pay any further medical bills in the future. Without the prompt action the baby may have died.

A few months after she returned to work the employee admitted, after being presented with irrefutable evidence, to defrauding the business of $5,000. This was a small sum compared to what the owner had given. Why? “You deserved it because you are mean. You paid for my baby, treatment, me and my mother to come with me and everything else, but you refused to pay for my husband to come with me. I needed the money to pay for his trip and you should have given it to me!”

It is difficult to predicts someone’s rationalization for fraud!